The Addition
Charlotte Henry adds together media, tech, politics and culture with the help of some fantastic guests.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 149
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
SPECIAL EPISODE: A Crossover With Media Voices
This week’s show is a bit different. I joined Chris Sutcliffe and Esther Thorpe from the Media Voices team for a special crossover episode. We discussed the state of broadcast media - both how things…
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Web Summit And OpenAI Chaos
The world of tech is rarely quiet, but it has been particularly frantic over the last few weeks. Firstly, we had Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrove resign over comments relating to the Israel-Hamas confli…
Wed 29 Nov 2023
![[Rerun] AI and the Future of Journalism](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/756789/post/139077200/ef98cdbca5d0b9369bacdee2a91ec769.jpg)
[Rerun] AI and the Future of Journalism
After all the OpenAI chaos in recent days, it seemed valuable to return to a conversation about AI from earlier this year with Adweek’s senior media reporter Mark Stenberg. Of course, we don’t discus…
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Action! Hollywood Returns!
It has been seven very trying few months in Hollywood, with first the writers, and then the actors, going on strike. Thankfully, unions representing both groups have now struck agreements with the st…
Wed 15 Nov 2023
The Highs, Lows and Dangers of Being a War Reporter
Life as a foreign correspondent can seem daring, dangerous and… fun. Often, it is! You get to travel the world and meet fascinating people, but there are also huge risks that come with the job, espec…
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Threads vs Twitter – Who is Winning
On his company’s latest earnings call, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said that Threads had almost 100 million monthly users. It’s no mean feat, given that the app has only launched in July. It clearly la…
Wed 01 Nov 2023
TV+ Talk: Jon Stewart Departs Apple TV+
This month, Chuck Joiner and I discuss the news that Ridley Scott has decided Apple TV+ viewers need a four-hour director’s cut of his movie “Napoleon”. Are we worthy of such genius? Talking of overl…
Fri 27 Oct 2023
Disney at 100
Disney is celebrating its centenary. The company was founded by brothers Roy and Walt on 16 October 1923. Legal wrangling and decades of creativity and innovation followed. The conglomerate we see to…
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Why Building a Community Around Your Publication Matters
“Community” has become a somewhat overused, and sometimes misused, word in recent times. However, when done right, it can become a really important element in engaging existing readers/listeners with…
Wed 11 Oct 2023
How to Make Money Blogging
I love blogging. It is how I got into digital media and journalism. (There’s a reason The Addition has a blog.) Blogging used to be quite a big deal back in the day! There are still people producing …
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Where Next For Hollywood Strikes?
The end of September is rapidly approaching, but writers and actors in the US remain on strike. Neither group has managed to come to a new agreement with the studios and streamers… and now it is gett…
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Reporting on Mason Greenwood’s Man Utd Return
Mason Greenwood was one of the most exciting young talents in English football, having broken into both the Manchester United and England first teams. Then, in January 2022, disturbing audio and imag…
Wed 13 Sep 2023
You Get a Bundle, You Get a Bundle… You ALL Get a Bundle!
The days in which (most) digital publishing companies think that the way to success is making content available for free are long gone. Subscriptions are becoming crucial to publishers of all sizes, …
Wed 06 Sep 2023
AI and the Future of Journalism
It is clear that AI tools are going to seriously disrupt journalism. We’ve already seen some publications try and get Large Language Models (LLMs) to create content. It did not end well. But we are o…
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Is Twitter Still Useful for Journalists?
You might just have noticed that there have been rather a lot of changes at Twitter recently. So much so, that it isn’t even called Twitter any more. (No, I’m not calling it X.) In various outbursts,…
Wed 23 Aug 2023
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[Rerun] How Rolling Stone Came to The UK
This week, I’m rerunning the conversation I had last year with Rolling Sone UK news editor Nick Reilly.Rolling Stone is one of the iconic media brands, covering the crossover of music, culture and po…
Wed 16 Aug 2023
![[Rerun] Content Creation 101](https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/756789/post/135831401/0eac1d23e3456dc29be0da3b99764796.jpg)
[Rerun] Content Creation 101
The content creator space is constantly evolving, but how on Earth does it work? How do you even start? Is there a difference between a creator and an influencer? There are so many different elements…
Wed 09 Aug 2023
The Media Scandal That Rocked Ireland
RTÉ is Ireland’s national broadcaster, its equivalent of the BBC (albeit with a domestic commercial element). Presenter Ryan Tubridy is its biggest star and one of the country’s most beloved public f…
Wed 02 Aug 2023
The Media vs QAnon and Donald Trump
QAnon started out as bored teenagers having fun online… and ended up with a riot at the US Capitol. There may be more to come. We now have politicians, including former and potentially future preside…
Wed 26 Jul 2023
The Power of Newsletters
Newsletters have become one of the hottest topics in media in recent times, with publishers and individuals building huge readerships with them. That’s why the Media Voices team launched the Publishe…
Wed 19 Jul 2023
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